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Porgy and Bess in Wien

1953 29 min 0.0

Overview

Featuring the opera star Leontyne Price, the concert baritone William Warfield, and the irrepressible jazz bandleader Cab Calloway, this virtually unknown short film documents the first stop on what would become a four-year US State Department–sponsored tour of the Everyman Opera Company's production of the Gershwin-Heyward opera Porgy and Bess.

Details

Status: Released
Release Date: 1953-01-01
Production: United States Information Service